Country passenger rail and road coach services

Provision of customer focussed, safe and cost effective passenger transport to regional communities.

Average cost per passenger kilometre

The cost per passenger kilometre measures the cost efficiency of providing passenger services, expressed as the cost of carrying one passenger one kilometre.

Transwa Rail

The increased cost in 2004/05 over the targets for the year is largely due to increased maintenance costs for the existing Prospector railcars during the delay in commissioning the new railcars and higher than anticipated maintenance costs associated with the new Prospector, particularly the high cost of brake pads.

Transwa Road Coaches

The target of $0.16 did not include the full impact of the capital user charge, which was applied to PTA for the first time in 2004. The 2005/06 budget estimates were adjusted to reflect an estimated indicator of $0.21. The actual result was 5% over this target because of higher fuel costs and an increase in labour costs as staff transferred from workplace agreements to award conditions.

Regional school bus services

Provision of regional school bus transport to Western Australian school students by the School Bus Services Branch.

Cost per 1000 student place kilometres

The increase in the actuals for 2004/05 compared to the target for 2004/05 is as a result of higher costs of new Composite Rate Model (CRM) contract.

Rail corridor and residual freight issues management

Managing the rail freight corridor and infrastructure leased to the private sector and associated freight transport issues.

Total annual cost of managing the rail corridor and residual freight issues

The cost of managing the rail corridor is lower than budget due to lower than budgeted land rationalisation expenditures incurred due to timing issues on several projects.